[aruanan]

Right about changing the oil. In the time it took the posts to load, I could already have scanned through all of the first fifty on the old format. Since only WORDS convey useful information in the most direct way (notwithstanding a picture being worth a thousand of them), anything that cuts down on being able to get to the most words in the least possible time--no matter how pretty it may have been hoped to look--is a failure. Form, content, and purpose. If the purpose of FR is to give people a quick, easy way of accessing lots of useful news items and comments upon them, then both the form and the content should be tailored toward that end. The content is the posts and their titles. So it appears that form has gotten entirely in the way and vitiated the purpose by impairing access to the content. Let's not sacrifice substance to form.

[SCalGal]

It's not taking any longer to load on my computer.... and I'm using a dial up, with a 56K modem. The changes were a bit of a shock at first, but once I found out how to get breaking news back on my sidebar, I figured I'd live.

[CedarDave]

BUMP #524 to John's attention